Feb. 14, 1990 NASA's Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles away pointed its camera back at Home and took one last pic as suggested by Carl Sagan. Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
@OPhommachanh @elonmusk That green line is the timeline where I actually have a girlfriend. 😮💨
@OPhommachanh @elonmusk Alot to think about for sure...
@OPhommachanh @elonmusk Earth may be a small speck in this ever expanding universe, but it's inhabited by the most intelligent beings, the humans, in this universe!
@OPhommachanh @elonmusk And yet God, created us, and has a plan to end all of the chaos you speak of. The evidence of intelligent design of all creation is overwhelming. Random existence/evolution on ther other hand is so highly unlikely that it takes blind adherence/faith in mad men to believe it!
@OPhommachanh @elonmusk Sahl ibn Sa‘d As-Sā‘idi (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Were this world worth a wing of a mosquito in the sight of Allah, He would not have given the disbeliever a drink of water thereof."
@OPhommachanh @elonmusk Remarkable. But my question is did the astronaut make it back to earth at 3.7bn miles apart ?? 🙏
@OPhommachanh @elonmusk What Sagan fails to acknowledge is that we "ARE" Privileged. In the Grand Creation, only one is a Blue Dot. The entirety of the rest is lacking atmosphere. The Blue Dot is perfectly designed to support "Life". You can bring all the components of life together & can't produce Life
@OPhommachanh @elonmusk Dang but the parties on that lil dot be bumping 👌